Ladies First: Kate Gleason's life was one full of firsts

摘要

With our zeitgeist of presentism-the judging of the past through the lens of current standards-it's refreshing if not essential to know the past was not entirely without figures who not only exceeded the standards of their time but even those of today. At a time when women's suffrage was in its nascency, Catherine "Kate" Anselm Gleason (1865-1933) helped stage what would become the Gleason Corporation in the global cutting tools industry as a sales engineer for her family's gear-cutting machinery business.